Word: rigney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second division into the power vacuum have soared the Minnieota Twins and the Los Angeles Angels. Brilliant front-office work has matched fine handling of the teams by managers Sam Mele and Bill Rigney, and although the Angels are showing sings of folding (a nine-game losing streak in July and drop into third place), both teams could easily score a first-division finish...
...Rigney and pitching coach March Grissom have handled the L.A. pitching staff superbly. With only one consistent starter, Ken McBride (11-4), the staff has totalled an incredible 316 appearances in 106 games this season. Although only McBridge has over eight wins, Dean Chance, Bo Belinsky, and Don Lee have been effective both as starters and relievers, and Rigney has even coazed good performance from the like of Ryne Duren and Eli Grbas...
since the first All-Star game, Washington has played well over .500 and played ball spoiler to the Angels by Sweeping a crucial three-game series in Los Angeles to drop Rigney's team well behind New York, Behind genuinely first-rate pitching the Senators took two straight from Chicago, split four New York, and took three of four here. It will be a long haul, but Washington could be starting a five-year plan that when completed, will land them in or close to the first division
...better than a baseball, and sings rock 'n' roll on the side. Star Pitcher Bo ("No Hit") Belinsky is an unreconstructed pool shark. A retread catcher plays leftfield, and the Angels' double-play combination has toiled for a grand total of 16 other clubs. Manager Bill Rigney was sacked by the Giants, and General Manager Fred Haney was fired by the St. Louis Browns and the Pittsburgh Pirates...
...already knocked in more runs than in his three previous big-league seasons put together. But more important, the Angels have a special spirit-the camaraderie of the condemned. They call themselves "The Un-believables," and the more unbelievable, the better. "We always take the gamble," says Manager Rigney. "For instance, we have eleven pitchers, and we use them all -maybe all in one day. What the heck? We play strictly for today. It may rain tomorrow." Living for the moment, the Angels are living well: they have been permanent residents of the first division for more than a month...